Bernard William KearneyReserve Major General, United States
ArmyMember of Congress

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of the U.S. House of Representatives:

Representative from New York; born in Ithaca,
N.Y., May 23, 1889; attended the public schools; was graduated from Schenectady
(N.Y.) High School and from Union University Albany Law School in 1914;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Albany,
N.Y.; member of the New York National Guard 1909-1917, serving on the Mexican
border in 1916 and 1917; served overseas in the First World War in various
outfits; returned to the United States in 1919; continued active in the
New York National Guard, retiring in 1940, with rank of major general;
decorated with the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre, and the
Philippine Legion of Honor (officer); city judge of Gloversville,
N.Y., 1920-1924; assistant district attorney of Hamilton County, N.Y.,
1924-1929, and of Fulton County, N.Y., 1929-1931; district attorney of
Fulton County, N.Y., 1931-1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth
and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress;
resumed the practice of law; resided in Canandaigua, N.Y.; died in Venice,
Fla., June 3, 1976; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.